About

What is Tinspiration?
Tinspiration is group of petrolhead artists and photographers founded back in 2015 by two brothers – Tony & Jay Dunn. Since then our little collective has grown organically and we’ve worked on a number of automotive-based art and photography projects.

Our perversions aren't limited to just cars though; bikes, planes, boats, watches, audio, tools – if it's mechanical, electrical or related to anything that moves then we're likely to be drooling over it, taking it apart, photographing it or all of the above.

The Liveries Project
In 2020 we finally got to work on our Liveries Project, something that had been bubbling away in the background for ages. We’re all inspired by the classic racing liveries, but we wondered just how strong these liveries were as individual pieces of graphic art.

These aren’t just a few coloured lines, curves and boxes thrown together either. After deciding on the liveries, we wanted to link them in with a legendary moment in motorsport, the drivers and the cars. Then there was the issue of the colours! Colour matching wasn’t an option with so many different images and videos each showing a host of colour variants – even the surviving cars aren’t a match!

So, each piece of artwork went through numerous redesigns and colour adaptations before we could arrive at (and agree on!) the finals, the colours and lines that we thought embodied the spirit of these legendary liveries.

The bulk of the blame goes to our Father.
He trained at Ford in Dagenham and Lotus, and raced Formula Ford and Mustangs/Cortinas in the saloon classes. He was an engineer and mechanic, and at weekends he would take us with him to the workshop. We'd drink Klix hot orange, play pool, breathe fumes and wander among the three-storeys of tin – everything from daily-hardened Ford Granadas to Bentley R Type Continentals resting peacefully under linen covers.

He was a modest genius with a solution to everything who taught us so much and summed himself up perfectly once:"I'm not clever, but I'm resourceful..." 

We lost him in 2014, but in truth he's always there in everything we do. Every time we win a fight with the wrench and every time we hash a repair to get ourselves home.